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DOCUMENT 264.
TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY
HENRY PECKITT, ESQ.229*
A.
TESTIMONY COLLECTED FROM MR. AND MRS. SHEARSMITH.226
1. London. January 24, 1778. I, Henry Peckitt, went to
Bath Street, Coldbath Fields, to one Mr. Shearsmith’s, a
Barber, at whose house the learned and Honourable Emanuel
Swedenborg lodged, and died March 29, 1772 ; and was then,
as I since found, eighty-four years old. He, by the order of
* Of this document there exist two copies. With respect to the first
J. J. Garth Wilkinson, Esq., M. D., wrote to Dr. Im. Tafel under date of
March 26, 1842 (See German edition of " Swedenborg Documents," Vol. IV,
p. 198) : "Among the papers left by Mr. Peckitt there is one of considerable
interest, and I am empowered to make it public. I expect to see it in the
April number of the ’Intellectual Repository;’ and if it does not I shall
send you a copy of it. It ought to have a place in your documents."
Dr. Tafel continues, "On June 30, 1842, he accordingly sent me a copy of
the document, informing me that this same copy had been sent to the
’Intellectual Repository,’ and had been printed there in the July number
of 1842 ; this copy had been taken by Mr. Wilkinson himself from the
original; it bore the following title, Memoranda respecting Swedenborg by
the late Mr. Peckitt."
The second copy of these documents had been in the hands of Mr. Robert
Hindmarsh,225 and was introduced by him into his manuscript history of the
"Rise and Progress of the New Jerusalem Church," which was printed in
1861 under the editorship of the Rev. Edward Madeley of Birmingham.
Mr.Hindmarsh225 says in connection with the year 1783, on p. 18, "Mr. Henry
Peckitt229 also now joined us, and brought with him a rich harvest of in
formation concerning the personal character, circumstances, and habits of
the great Swedenborg. This information he had carefully taken down in
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